It’s a modern day 🔥book-burning🔥! Can I get an AMEN, ALLELUIA?! Link in comments
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Book burning is a very thin line on the First Amendment. The act of burning something with which you disagree is protected, I agree completely, but the destruction of another's publicized work may not be.
In this case, I'd actually prefer to leave it to the courts. Which means, it's best to avoid causing potential damages to another's intellectual property until a ruling can clarify your full rights. It wouldn't be a wrong or right moral stance, but rather a "don't poke the bear" stance.
I won't stop anyone from burning things, but I won't encourage the behavior either. Just like the books themselves, I'm just gonna ignore it and let people make their own mistakes.
Burning books, etc isn’t an infringement of another’s intellectual property tho. It’s as legal to burn a pagan CD as it is to sell it on eBay.
Accosting stores, seizing the books, and intercepting their sale could be infringement of another's intellectual property. In the Constitution, it is considered under the term "Free Press", which is to say that the Press should be Free from dictates of any governing body, be it official legislators or unofficial mobs.
You have to think about this logically. Suppression of the information goes both ways. If you say it's okay to suppress this book, they can claim the same rights for your book, including the Bible.
This is one of those things that Nations must remain neutral on, for the sake of the honest as well as the dishonest.
Bias can cloud judgement.
The burning is fine, as it falls under demonstration protections, but if they continue to prevent access to the book then you've expanded the discussion into attacking the Free Press.
I wasn’t saying these people accosted books or interfered with sales, that’s a different thing. But you’re so right, First Amendment works both ways; the Constitution is actually incompatible with Christianity. We are forced to co-exist with statues of Satan in public buildings, black masses offered on govt property, etc. The constitution says they have rights, but God says error has no rights. What business hath light with dark?